Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 22

Wen Buh Rabbit fine eh cant git no saterfaction outer Buh Elephant, eh cut down, an eh berry bex, an eh mek plan fuh git eeben wid Buh Elephunt fuh de big damage wuh him bin done ter um an eh fambly.

Who acts: fuh git eeben · What happens: cut down, wi, do, um · To what, where: outer Buh, Buh, big damage, eh, fine eh cant git

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fuh git eeben), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 git	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 git	amod
5	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 git	amod
6	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 git	amod
7	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 saterfaction	det
9	saterfaction	saterfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Buh	nsubj
10	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Buh	amod
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 git	parataxis
12	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Buh	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
14	eh	eh	ADV	_	15 cut	advmod
15	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Buh	acl
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 cut	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bex	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bex	det
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bex	amod
20	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bex	compound
21	bex	bex	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Buh	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 plan	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 plan	det
24	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 plan	amod
25	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 plan	compound
26	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 git	parataxis
27	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 eeben	amod
28	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eeben	compound
29	eeben	eeben	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wid	nsubj
30	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 plan	acl:relcl
31	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 wid	obj
32	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Buh	flat
33	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	26 plan	discourse
34	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	36 damage	advmod
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 damage	amod
36	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 git	parataxis
37	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	36 damage	discourse
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 damage	obj
39	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 damage	flat
40	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 damage	acl
41	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	40 done	flat:foreign
42	um	um	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 done	xcomp
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 eh	det
44	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 um	obj
45	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	42 um	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 git	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut down	participle		outer Buh no saterfaction and a eh berry bex not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	wi	past	fuh git eeben	Buh		tree rules
3	do	participle		big damage Buh not said here		tree rules
4	um	infinitive		a eh	fambly property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 22